A Guide To Primitive & Folk Art Doll Patterns From Veenas Mercantile

To Find Primitive & Folk Art Doll Patterns Ebay is a Great Place To Start! And if you are a Beginner you can find A Large Array of Patterns to chose from. The Regular dolls that have the head and body as one are a Great choice for a Beginner. The More Advanced would be the Round Headed Dolls and anything that would need Gussets. These Dolls are Great to Create and a Great Teaching pattern but can be a challenge with No Experiance...Most Designers Patterns are Packed with Good Instructions, But We cannot Be there with you So when Beginning The Doll Making Experiance chose something farely Easy till you get the Hang of things...

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Most Primitive Doll Patterns are Easy to use with Full Instructions and Are sold Directly from the Artist themselves. It Is Important To Give Credit for the Design to The Artist for the Finished Product Made from the Original Pattern.

Things To Look For In A Doll Pattern Listing:

You Want A Copy of The Original Design and Drawing of the Pattern when the Original Doll was designed...I always list this because I draw My Patterns when I am Designing The Original Doll...

My Patterns are Never An After Thought After the Doll was Designed, They are Always A Copy of the Original Drawing at the time of My Creation!

Pictures, Complete Instructions, Patterns of the Complete Doll and Clothing Patterns...

Prim Tips and Antiquing Methods Used...

These Are The Most Important Things to look for in a Pattern Listing...

Things You Will Need To Complete Your Project

Most Primitive Doll Bodys are Made from Muslin, Osnaburg. You can find this in any Fabric Store... Usually A Yard for the Body is sufficiant but Check what the Designer calls for...For The Outfit A Cotton Fabric is very desirable because Poly will not absorb stain like Cotton will and the Amount needed will depend on what the Designer calls for...

The Stuffing inside Can be Polyfil or What I prefer is the Scraps of the Fabric that I use and save and then ultimatly Stuff My Dolls with. Sometimes I use both! Wood Excelsior is also used. Personally I have never used it but I know some doll makers do...

You dont want to use...Rice, Beans or any Food groups because it will serve as Lunch down the road to things we dont want in our Dolls...

You will want A Good Thread, I Personally Use A Blend of Cotton and Polyester and a Good known brand in the Colors of Cream and Black...I use Black 99% of the time for My Designs...

You will want Any Brand of Instant Coffee, The less inexpensive Brands works just as good.

Sometimes the Pattern will Call for Black or White Acrylic Paint. This can Be found in any Craft Store and the Least Expensive is all you need. I use Plain Black Or A Light Ivory color on my painted dolls.

You definatly want to get some 1" sponge applicators to paint with and these are found in any craft store. They are 1" wide and have a wooden handle..

So These Are The True Basics of Primitive Doll Patterns of What you will need and What to look for. There is much More to this Art than what is listed here and As time Goes By you will learn the Craft and Start to develope your Own inspiration and develop your own ways of Doll Making...

Here Are Some Pictures of My Completed Designs. You Can Find The Patterns For These Dolls By Clicking The Link Directly Below the Pictures...

Veenas Current Primitive Folk Art Doll Patterns & Finished Doll's